Summit Center Marketing and Community Relations Internship

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College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Communication
PO Box 5619
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5619
Phone: 928-523-2232
Fax: 928-523-1505
Internship Information Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in providing one of our students with an internship. Please provide
the following information so that we can publish this information in several locations accessible
to interested students. Please feel free to respond on this form and send it back to us via email at
school.communication@nau.edu. Please copy Norm.Medoff@nau.edu on this email.
Organization offering internship:
Carrie Heinonen, Director of Marketing and Community Relations
Summit Center / Northern Arizona Orthopaedics
Phone: 928-226-2936
Fax: 928-226-3071
Email: heinonenc@northazortho.com
When internship is to take place:
 Two semesters, preferably starting Summer 2014 (this may be too late, in that case, Fall of 2015)
Type of Internship Offered (Internship Title and Responsibilities):
 Title: Marketing and Community Relations Intern
Responsibilities:
 Represent Northern Arizona Orthopaedics: NAO is the region’s largest comprehensive
orthopaedics, sports medicine and rehabilitation practice, with 14 fellowship-trained
physicians caring for patients in Flagstaff, Sedona, Page and Prescott Valley. Our
approach to care is about helping active people keep their quality-of-life, as well as
building relationships with our patients, their families and the communities we serve.
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Represent the Summit Center: The Summit Center is a 50,000 square-foot orthopaedic
care delivery facility conveniently located across the street from Flagstaff Medical Center.
It is home to four entities – Northern Arizona Orthopaedics, Urgent Ortho, DeRosa
Physical Therapy and Summit Surgery Center. Modern in architecture and simple in
design, the building has been a place of convenience and comfort for patients coming from
the far reaches of Arizona and beyond. Individuals needing evaluation, diagnosis,
treatment and therapy for their bone, joint or muscle problems and injuries, come to the
Summit Center, the only one of its kind in Northern Arizona.
The intern will assist with the following:
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Marketing and Public Relations
Social Media / Social Marketing
Event planning, implementation (may require weekend work)
Distribution of Collateral Materials (must have car)
Communication and Writing
Basic Graphic Design
Newsletters
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Database Management
Market Research
Project Management
Press Releases
Special projects as assigned by Leadership and/or CEO
Paid/Unpaid (if paid, please put type of payment e.g. stipend or salary):
 Stipend at end of semester ($300 Summer / $500 Fall or Spring)
Total number of hours of work per week:
 12-20 hours per week / per complete semester
Total number of weeks (an academic semester for fall or spring is 16 weeks long, for the
summer it is 12 weeks long):
 12-16 weeks depending on semester
Special skills requested
 Strong knowledge of business practices, professional, critical thinker, innovative and creative
 Writing and communication skills
 Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat (on Windows platform)
 Facebook, Twitter, Slideshare, YouTube/Google + } social media in general
 PR/Advertising
 Preferred but not necessary:
o Web Content Management Software
o Strong online research skills
o Special event planning
o Windows Powerpoint
Please provide any additional information for interested students:
Students work directly with the Marketing Director as well as others on the 5-person Leadership Team.
Visit www.northazortho.com and www.facebook.com/northazortho
To learn more.
Students must have a minimum of a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) and be a junior or senior
in order to qualify for formal internship credit. We prefer students who are working
toward a degree in Communication, Business, PR/Advertising or Marketing.
Student must have their own car for transportation and be willing to work some
weekends.
Thank for your interest in our students. I look forward to working with you.
Norman J. Medoff, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Internship Coordinator
School of Communication
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Phone: 928-523-8257
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